It’s highly likely that if you’re a self-releasing artist - or even if you’re just dabbling in music-making - you’ll have a SoundCloud account. For some, releasing their work on SoundCloud is the very final stage. Sharing their delicately arranged and produced work with their cultivated fan-base.
However, in the last few weeks, the quality of the platform’s compression algorithm (AAC) has come under heavy flak. The criticism led to intense discourse, and caused the streaming platform to respond directly.
